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Old 11-14-2005, 10:09 PM   #106 (permalink)
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Re: Baha'is and politics

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Very simply, I see no contradiction between the two. And while I fully agree that our actions here determine our status then, there is still little direct cause-and-effect other than the passage I quoted. So as far as I can tell this simply isn't something we can determine fully here and now.

Nor do I think there is necessarily any "disagreement" needing reconciliation. I'm perfectly happy to live with the remaining ambiguities for the nonce....

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So am I, Bruce. This life is full of education, and the next must be even fuller.

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Old 11-15-2005, 01:27 AM   #107 (permalink)
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Using the word "nonce":

Bruce...

I think the word "nonce" must be one of those fifty dollars words that you use every once in awhile. I mean you could find use it maybe for a special occasion here at CR or other places. Where else have you used it?

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Old 11-15-2005, 01:38 AM   #108 (permalink)
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Bruce...

I think the word "nonce" must be one of those fifty dollars words that you use every once in awhile. I mean you could find use it maybe for a special occasion here at CR or other places. Where else have you used it?

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Well,
I use "nonce" fairly often in thesame usage as Bruce, so I knew what it meant.
Main Entry: 1nonce
Pronunciation: 'nän(t)s
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English nanes, alteration (from misdivision of then anes in such phrases as to then anes for the one purpose) of anes one purpose, irregular from an, on one -- more at ONE
1 : the one, particular, or present occasion, purpose, or use <for the nonce>
2 : the time being

My grandmother used it frequently, she was of Ulster Irish descent.

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Old 11-15-2005, 03:57 PM   #109 (permalink)
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I think the word "nonce" must be one of those fifty dollars words that you use every once in awhile. I mean you could find use it maybe for a special occasion here at CR or other places. Where else have you used it?
Hmmm; I hadn't realized it was all that expensive a word! . . .

Anyway, in the immoral words of Allan Sherman's uncle,

"Who counts?!"

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